Strikebreaking & intimidation : mercenaries and masculinity in twentieth-century America / Stephen H. Norwood.
| Author/creator |
Norwood, Stephen H. (Stephen Harlan), 1951-2023 |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2002. |
| Description | xii, 328 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Variant title | Strikebreaking and intimidation |
| Contents | Introduction: The emergence of the anti-labor mercenary --The student as strikebreaker: College youth and the crisis of masculinity in the early twentieth century -- Gunfighters on the urban frontier: Strikebreakers in the car wars -- Forging a new masculinity: African American strikebreaking in the North in the early twentieth century -- Cossacks of the coal fields: Corporate mercenaries in the mine wars -- Ford's brass knuckles: Harry Bennett, the cult of muscularity, and anti-labor terror, 1920-1945 -- They shall not pass: Paramilitary combat against strikebreaking in the auto industry, 1933-1939 -- Epilogue: anti-unionism in America, 1945-2000. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-320) and index. |
| LCCN | 2001059763 |
| ISBN | 0807827053 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0807853739 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | General Stacks | HD5324 .N67 2002 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |